boundary road

These are technically North Melbourne homes by which I mean they are right at the edge of NM in a part of NM that people probably don't think of as NM at all, but that's not the point. What interests me is what is it like living in a house on a very main road, where your main interest is surely protecting yourself from the sound (and pollution) of the traffic right outside your front door. I looked at these on google earth and I now realise that they do have some kind of rear access too, but no car parking space as far as I can tell unless that's incorporated into the main structure of the houses, which it might well be. I will have to wander down there sometime soon for a look.